Fanzines - A Listing of Sorts

[tom]

OK

Retro Classix = G. Howden
Atari Entertainment = Edwin Stifter (AE was the continuation of Lynx User combining Atari Jaguar and Atari Lynx
Retro Games = Jason Moore also website: http://www.retrogames.co.uk/
The Portfolio Connection = Peter and Lyn Bennett

The New VideoGame Trader = Jerry Greiner (only made 1 issue?)



More fanzines:

Germany: ZONG (German fanzine plus 1 English issue), Atari 8-bit fanzine = Kemal Ezcan/Yoda Zhang, here's info: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233...usic/?hl=+zong
here's some issues on Atarimania: http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-zong_38.html

Germany: Atari Magazin (German professional magazine turned fanzine) = Werner Rätz http://www.atarimania.com/atari-maga...agazin_81.html
UK: Tyne & Wear Atari 8-bit User Group = John Matthewson http://www.atarimania.com/atari-maga...letter_65.html
UK: Futura XL XE Newsletter = S. J. Murray
UK: EXCEL DISK MAGAZINE = R Stuart
UK: BOOT! The official newsletter of LACE (London Atari Computer Enthusiasts)



Could you put the fanzine listing in alphabetically order, is that possible? It makes it easier to follow.

[Bughuntertf]

OK

Retro Classix = G. Howden
Atari Entertainment = Edwin Stifter (AE was the continuation of Lynx User combining Atari Jaguar and Atari Lynx
Retro Games = Jason Moore also website: http://www.retrogames.co.uk/
The Portfolio Connection = Peter and Lyn Bennett

The New VideoGame Trader = Jerry Greiner (only made 1 issue?)

More fanzines:

Germany: ZONG (German fanzine plus 1 English issue), Atari 8-bit fanzine = Kemal Ezcan/Yoda Zhang, here's info: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233...usic/?hl=+zong
here's some issues on Atarimania: http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-zong_38.html

Germany: Atari Magazin (German professional magazine turned fanzine) = Werner Rätz http://www.atarimania.com/atari-maga...agazin_81.html
UK: Tyne & Wear Atari 8-bit User Group = John Matthewson http://www.atarimania.com/atari-maga...letter_65.html
UK: Futura XL XE Newsletter = S. J. Murray
UK: EXCEL DISK MAGAZINE = R Stuart
UK: BOOT! The official newsletter of LACE (London Atari Computer Enthusiasts)

Could you put the fanzine listing in alphabetically order, is that possible? It makes it easier to follow.

Thanks very much! They will be added promptly. And certainly - I would be happy to put it in alphabetical order.

[tom]

That's great, looks more professional now.

Here's another UK fanzine:
Commodore Faction = David Connolly

[Daniel Thomas]

With the help of Digital Press' Joe Santulli we are in the process of setting up a fanzine archival site. The goal of the site is to archive as many known fanzines as possible and make them freely available to view and download. Hopefully we can make a one stop spot to archive fanzines which were the 'pre-internet social media' for video game fanatics.

I am currently scanning in about 110 fanzine issues I have kept throughout the years and will be uploading them to the site soon but I could use help. I am looking for users who want to help tag the fanzines that are uploaded, write descriptions, fill out the editor information, date and other fields, etc.

Once I get my initial batch uploaded we will have a decent start and list of all that is online and will be looking to add more fanzines. I will be able to offer a scanning service if you are unable to scan your fanzine collection. If you are a previous fanzine editor who wants to submit their fanzines and write up synopsis, stories, etc. to go along with the issues, that would be great!

If you can help out on this project in any way feel free to PM me.

Hello to the forum after a long absence, and thanks to DP for keeping this site alive.

This news of digitally preserving the videogame fanzines is very welcome news. I must, sadly, confess that I threw away my entire collection of zines sometime around 1996, including all the "master" pages for my own zine, V: The Videogame Experience. It remains one of the two or three dumbest mistakes of my life. I should have put everything in storage instead.

I am currently working on establishing my own indie publishing company, one that will publish on print and digital media. I very much want to publish a fanzine anthology that includes the zine scene of the early to mid 1990s, during the 16-bit era. I don't expect the book to be a bestseller, but I personally find it important to preserve this history and this scene. We all had great fun, we received a lot of attention from the videogame industry, and many of us began professional careers from our humble creations.

If there are any "faneds" who still have original copies of their zines (and any others), please contact me. This project isn't in the immediate future, but if all goes well, I would like to see a 2016 release. We will see how it goes.

Also, if anyone out there has issues of my old zine, V, please let me know. I have a digital copy of the first issue, but nothing more. Much thanks in advance.

[Kevincal]

About 5 years ago on Atari Age a handful of us started a magazine called "Classic Video Gamer Magazine"

Only several issues were released. I stupidly sold mine like 4 years ago now. I wrote some Atari Jaguar game reviews in 2 or 3 issues, the first ones...

If anyone has any CVGM magazines PLEASE contact me I will pay you good money for those early issues. It's the only thing I have ever had my writing published in... Was labor of love, I didn't make any money.

[Zap!]

Does anyone remember Phil Patton? He had a fanzine called "The Lynx" in the early 90's that was not only about the Lynx, but all Atari systems in general. He was a great pen pal, as we wrote numerous letters to each other about classic gaming. I'd love to find him, but the name appears to be too common. I do remember he was located in CA.

[Gameguy]

Does anyone remember Phil Patton? He had a fanzine called "The Lynx" in the early 90's that was not only about the Lynx, but all Atari systems in general. He was a great pen pal, as we wrote numerous letters to each other about classic gaming. I'd love to find him, but the name appears to be too common. I do remember he was located in CA.

His fanzine was called "Wild Cat". From what research I've been able to find on him, he worked for Stanford University based on the email address he had. No idea where he is now, what information I can find on his email address is most recent from the early 2000s.

Here's some info that mentions his fanzine and provides a home address in California. You probably still have his address if you kept his letters but I'll post it anyway.
http://umich.edu/~archive/atari/Lynx/lynx-faq.txt

Search the list below for his name and you'll have his email address.
http://avc.atari-users.net/Fanzines/AZV8n1.pdf

[Zap!]

His fanzine was called "Wild Cat". From what research I've been able to find on him, he worked for Stanford University based on the email address he had. No idea where he is now, what information I can find on his email address is most recent from the early 2000s.

Here's some info that mentions his fanzine and provides a home address in California. You probably still have his address if you kept his letters but I'll post it anyway.
http://umich.edu/~archive/atari/Lynx/lynx-faq.txt

Search the list below for his name and you'll have his email address.
http://avc.atari-users.net/Fanzines/AZV8n1.pdf

Thanks for the info. I do remember "Wild Cat", but "The Lynx" was the original name. I used to trade him issues of my own fanzine, Zap!, for it. I have all my copies in storage. I did keep his letters, but not the envelopes, so I might not have it. Thank you again! Still, this was probably 1993 at the latest, so he may have moved...

[Gameguy]

Thanks for the info. I do remember "Wild Cat", but "The Lynx" was the original name. I used to trade him issues of my own fanzine, Zap!, for it. I have all my copies in storage. I did keep his letters, but not the envelopes, so I might not have it. Thank you again! Still, this was probably 1993 at the latest, so he may have moved...

I didn't know about the name change the magazine had, I just thought it was making your search more difficult with a different name. Other Atari resources talking about the same information as I've posted were reposting that contact info through the 90's into the early 2000's before stopping, that was still 15 years ago though. Still I've just started looking up the address itself and the property seems to be owned by a Gary Patton so it's looking good for a way to contact Phil. I should have done a search on the address last night but it just slipped my mind.


http://www.arivify.com/property/search/9R9ieoSsM
http://www.spokeo.com/CA/Santa-Cruz/131-Dake-Ave

[Zap!]

I didn't know about the name change the magazine had, I just thought it was making your search more difficult with a different name. Other Atari resources talking about the same information as I've posted were reposting that contact info through the 90's into the early 2000's before stopping, that was still 15 years ago though. Still I've just started looking up the address itself and the property seems to be owned by a Gary Patton so it's looking good for a way to contact Phil. I should have done a search on the address last night but it just slipped my mind.


http://www.arivify.com/property/search/9R9ieoSsM
http://www.spokeo.com/CA/Santa-Cruz/131-Dake-Ave

I did some more researching last night as well, and it does appear that he still has the same address. I tried to contact him on one email address listed, but it bounced back to me as inactive email. I will try the other one shortly. If worse comes to worst, I'll just send him a snail mail letter, like we used to do in the 90's.

Anyway, I was looking through the tons of archives that I have (let's just say they take up my entire space under my queen-sized bed), and I found an issue of The Lynx. Here's a quick jpeg scan of the cover:

[Gameguy]

I forgot to check back on this. That's a really neat scan you have there, I kind of wish I would have been old enough to get into fanzines back then. A lot of great gaming stuff I missed out on because I was just too young at the time or even not being born yet. I hope getting back in contact with him will work out.

[bcRIPster]

Hi, I just wanted to chime in on this conversation about the inclusion of Game Zero as a zine. I'm one of the original Co-Editors of the publication and I actively maintain the archive of the website.

Game Zero initially was in a grey area as far as being a zine. We started out the gate with a photo-copied publication with a circulation of 500 distributed mainly through video gaming retail and rental stores in and around Central Ohio, and by the time we moved to the web in November of 1994 we were a offset published format with a circulation of 1500 and we were funded by local advertising.

While we dropped print for a bit to move online we eventually add print back as a multimedia CD-ROM based magazine that complemented the website with a print circulation of 150,000. We had always considered ourselves more of a magazine than a fanzine over the years and mixed with both groups of editors at trade shows, and the game studios gave us magazine privileges because of the exposure we provided (especially once we were on-line).

So on the surface, without context, if you saw our first couple of issues you might think we were just another photo-copy zine but that was simply due to start-up costs as it took the first couple of issues to secure our advertising. Anyways, I just wanted to add some context to the topic.

Cheers!

[bcRIPster]

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